Where to Start with Alastair Reynolds
- Best entry point → House of Suns
- Best standalone → Pushing Ice
- Start the Prefect Dreyfus Emergency series → The Prefect
- What fans keep coming back to → Revelation Space
- Best narrator for Alastair Reynolds → Chasm City
- Highest rated by listeners → Inhibitor Phase (Revelation Space #4)
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House of Suns
House of Suns • Book 1
Narrated by John Lee
★ 4.24 ABR Score (37.9K ratings)★ 4.24 Goodreads (33.1K) ★ 4.47 Audible (4.8K)18h 17m listening time • Released 2009 - 2
Inhibitor Phase
Revelation Space • Book 4
Narrated by John Lee
★ 4.16 ABR Score (8.3K ratings)★ 4.11 Goodreads (7.3K) ★ 4.6 Audible (1.0K)19h 36m listening time • Released 2021 - 3
The Prefect
Prefect Dreyfus Emergency • Book 1
Narrated by John Lee
★ 4.15 ABR Score (25.4K ratings)★ 4.17 Goodreads (21.9K) ★ 4.41 Audible (3.5K)19h 41m listening time • Released 2011 - 4
Chasm City
Revelation Space #0.5 • Book 2
Narrated by John Lee
★ 4.09 ABR Score (31.8K ratings)★ 4.13 Goodreads (27.8K) ★ 4.35 Audible (3.9K)23h 3m listening time • Released 2009 - 5
Elysium Fire
Prefect Dreyfus Emergency • Book 2
Narrated by John Lee
★ 4.07 ABR Score (9.2K ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (7.8K) ★ 4.47 Audible (1.3K)17h 49m listening time • Released 2018 - 6
Absolution Gap
Revelation Space • Book 3
Narrated by John Lee
★ 4.07 ABR Score (28.0K ratings)★ 4.02 Goodreads (25.4K) ★ 4.41 Audible (2.6K)27h 10m listening time • Released 2009 - 7
Pushing Ice
Narrated by John Lee
★ 3.99 ABR Score (28.2K ratings)★ 4.07 Goodreads (22.7K) ★ 4.23 Audible (5.5K)19h 43m listening time • Released 2010 - 8
On the Steel Breeze
Poseidon's Children • Book 2
Narrated by Adjoa Andoh
★ 3.93 ABR Score (7.6K ratings)★ 4.04 Goodreads (7.0K) ★ 4.32 Audible (589)23h 10m listening time • Released 2014 - 9
Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
Revelation Space #1.5 • Book 6
Narrated by John Lee
★ 3.91 ABR Score (13.4K ratings)★ 4 Goodreads (12.5K) ★ 4.26 Audible (885)6h 58m listening time • Released 2015 - 10
Century Rain
Narrated by John Lee
★ 3.90 ABR Score (13.6K ratings)★ 3.95 Goodreads (12.2K) ★ 4.26 Audible (1.3K)19h 41m listening time • Released 2010 - 11
Blue Remembered Earth
Poseidon's Children • Book 1
Narrated by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
★ 3.85 ABR Score (13.3K ratings)★ 3.89 Goodreads (12.3K) ★ 4.24 Audible (1.0K)21h 45m listening time • Released 2012 - 12
Revelation Space
Revelation Space • Book 1
Narrated by John Lee
★ 3.83 ABR Score (68.1K ratings)★ 3.99 Goodreads (62.3K) ★ 4.03 Audible (5.8K)22h 12m listening time • Released 2009 - 13
Slow Bullets
Narrated by Susan Duerden
★ 3.54 ABR Score (5.6K ratings)★ 3.61 Goodreads (5.3K) ★ 3.85 Audible (231)4h 18m listening time • Released 2015
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